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Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 1:44 pm
by thibodeaux
This weekend my hotmail account's junk mail folder started filling up with "bounces." You know, notifications that I've sent undeliverable mail. I wonder if some jackass spammer is using my address as his reply-to.
Anybody ever encounter this, and if so, is it bad news and how do I fix it?
Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 2:19 pm
by GORDON
Oh, sorry, didn't think you'd mind.
Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 2:28 pm
by thibodeaux
I didn't know you were funny.
Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 2:41 pm
by TPRJones
Yeah, it happens. Nothing you can do about it, really, other than tracking down the spammer and killing him.
Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 2:46 pm
by GORDON
thibodeaux wrote:I didn't know you were funny.
I watched that DVD 2 nights ago.
Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 2:54 pm
by thibodeaux
It's tough having children.
Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 7:24 pm
by TheCatt
Someone started doing this with my domain a while ago. I routed all my catch-all email through Gmail, and its filters killed them.
Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 7:25 pm
by TheCatt
It's not bad news. Someone's just faking the email address.
Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 8:03 pm
by GORDON
The weird thing is that someone randomly chose Thib's "ilovecock@hotmail" email addy.
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:37 am
by thibodeaux
TheCatt wrote:It's not bad news. Someone's just faking the email address.
I just was thinking that occasionally spammers get arrested. I figured The Authorities had the brains to arrest the actual guy who sent the email, not the poor schlub whose name is in the "reply-to" field. But trusting The Authorities to know their rectum from a hole in the ground is not a safe bet these days.
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:48 am
by TheCatt
They do.
The only downside is that sometimes domains will be flagged as spam senders even though they are not by certain black lists.
Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:09 am
by GORDON
TheCatt wrote:They do.
The only downside is that sometimes domains will be flagged as spam senders even though they are not by certain black lists.
Happened to dtman.com during the run-up to the 2004 election.
I have to send my personal email through gmail smtp.